Post by Linalin on Feb 17, 2005 10:13:34 GMT -5
CHIBA -- A public high school teacher has been suspended from work for making embarrassing advances on a woman by trying to give her 10,000 yen and asking for her e-mail address, officials said.
The teacher, 48, whose name is being withheld, quit on Wednesday after the Chiba Prefectural Board of Education suspended him for six months from his high school in Matsudo on Wednesday.
The man went on a package tour to Italy in September last year while taking paid leave on the grounds that he suffered from depression.
Showing a name card that wrongly stated he was a "business consultant," the teacher talked with a Japanese university student who was on the tour and tried to give her 10,000 yen in cash.
"I tried to give her the money in a bid to help her financially as she looked to be short of money," local officials quoted him as saying. "I like giving donations."
The woman declined his offer and reported the man's advances to a tour guide, saying she felt that his offer was disgusting.
The guide talked to a woman official from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, who happened to be another member of the tour.
The ministry official, who had received the teacher's real name card describing his school, notified Chiba education officials about the matter in December. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Feb. 17, 2005)
What I would have done was taken the money and given him a false address. By the time he'd email me and waited for a reply (which the verbal contract of cash for email addy didn't entail), I'd already be gone with the money
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The teacher, 48, whose name is being withheld, quit on Wednesday after the Chiba Prefectural Board of Education suspended him for six months from his high school in Matsudo on Wednesday.
The man went on a package tour to Italy in September last year while taking paid leave on the grounds that he suffered from depression.
Showing a name card that wrongly stated he was a "business consultant," the teacher talked with a Japanese university student who was on the tour and tried to give her 10,000 yen in cash.
"I tried to give her the money in a bid to help her financially as she looked to be short of money," local officials quoted him as saying. "I like giving donations."
The woman declined his offer and reported the man's advances to a tour guide, saying she felt that his offer was disgusting.
The guide talked to a woman official from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, who happened to be another member of the tour.
The ministry official, who had received the teacher's real name card describing his school, notified Chiba education officials about the matter in December. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Feb. 17, 2005)
What I would have done was taken the money and given him a false address. By the time he'd email me and waited for a reply (which the verbal contract of cash for email addy didn't entail), I'd already be gone with the money
.